Hello - I am trying very hard to install Debian Squeeze onto my EeePC 901 using wireless, with pretty limited success.
Can I first say that using debian-eeepc.img to install Lenny on my 901 as per the wiki (http://wiki.debian.org/<http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install> DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install>) works flawlessly... well done. But I am more interested in installing Squeeze from scratch if possible (rather than an upgrade from Lenny). To that end, as per the wiki I am using the standard installer. I have tried both documented options (the boot.img.gz/netinst option and the unetbootin/netinst/CD-1 option). The rt2860 wireless interface does not seem to be detected in either case. I read ( http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch06s04.html.en) that the installer was capable of installing non-free firmware. However, copying the firmware-ralink deb onto the USB flash drive (either to the root of the device or in a directory "/firmware") does not help. The installer does not prompt for firmware at any time. Is the rt2860 not supported in the kernel that is used with these methods? I have also tried completing a net install and trying to set up the wireless interface afterwards, using something like the steps below: - copy firmware-ralink package to machine, install using dpkg - mount netinst iso & install wireless-tools using aptitude - edit /etc/network/interfaces, add missing lines for interface wlan0 (including essid & wep key) - reboot ...but I still do not have a connected wireless interface with which to complete the install. Am I going to have to wait for a debian-eeepc.img that supports Squeeze? While installing using the updated d-i, I noticed character glitches within its interface - a portion of the right-hand border was misaligned, the buttons had what looked like escape codes all over them... It didn't render the interface unusable, it just messed it up a bit. This did not happen with the debian-eeepc.img Lenny installer. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? Lastly, I have some feedback for the wonderful DebianEEEPC wiki - specifically for the section regarding the Standard Installer ( http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/InstallUsingStandardInstaller). Apologies if this is not the correct channel to go through... If it is better for me to simply create a wiki account and edit what's there, please say so. * Squeeze (testing) using an updated d-i: - The zcat method to write a bootable image to a USB flash drive works on Mac OSX, provided you add a ".Z" suffix to the boot.img.gz file (tested using Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard). - For those with access to Windows only, (1) use 7-Zip to extract boot.img from boot.img.gz; (2) use win32diskimager ( https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download) to write the image to USB flash drive. * Squeeze installation using Unetbootin to do a full install (Text install): - Step 3 / Windows appears not to work. I have tried Daemon Tools, Virtual CloneDrive, MagicISO and Alcohol 52% on WinXP SP3 and none can mount the .img file in such a way to allow access to the files within. Windows complains that the disk is not formatted, that it could be corrupted or is using a format that is not compatible with Windows (I suspect the latter). I tried extracting the files from boot.img using 7-Zip, but copying to the USB drive and overwriting existing files renders it unbootable. The only method I managed to make work was the Linux method. Cheers, Craig
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